The words he had said to her before came to mind.
These are all unpleasant words.
For example, she is not even worthy of being his concubine.
She thought she had forgotten all about it, but when she set foot here again, she still remembered it clearly in her mind.
She suddenly lost interest and just wanted to go back to her villa.
But the next moment, Chu Mu stepped across the threshold again and held her hand.
"That was before. Now in the entire palace, you can go wherever you want." There was a bit of doting in his tone.
But Ruan Tang only felt ironic in his ears.
But when he took her across the threshold, she put away those emotions. After all, she was here to do business.
She just took a look at what was in the box and why Shen Qianyi and the others tried every means to get it.
As for Prince Ning's Mansion, she will come less often or not at all in the future.
Ruan Tang calmed down his emotions and followed Chu Mu to his desk.
When he went to get the box, Ruan Tang took a moment to look around the entire study.
His study room was simply and elegantly decorated, with a desk, a master's chair, and several large bookshelves, all filled with books and bamboo slips.
There are several landscape paintings hanging on the wall.
Ruan Tang doesn't understand Chinese painting, but she also learned painting in her previous life, but she only painted sketches and watercolors. Even if they are paintings of different styles, they are all connected in art. She can see the person who painted the calligraphy and painting. Strong foundation.
When Chu Mu brought the box over, he saw Ruan Tang's eyes falling on the calligraphy and paintings on the wall for a moment.
"Do you know calligraphy and painting?"
Ruan Tang shook his head, "I don't really understand, but I have learned a little bit before."
"So what do you think of these paintings?"
"It's very good. The artistic conception is very good. It can be seen that the person who painted has good skills." The skills are at least very mature.
"They are all drawn by me, but they were all drawn when I was young."
When his imperial brother was still alive, he actually lived a very carefree life, playing chess, calligraphy and painting, walking birds and playing with cats every day.
Later, there were riots on the border, so he gave up these idle jobs and went on an expedition with his imperial brother.
After returning from the war, his royal brother passed away not long after that. After that, he began to assist the new king, and he had no time to do this.
"Did you draw it when you were young? Then your drawing skills are really good."
"That's natural. I'll discuss it with you when I get the chance."
If they didn't have something serious to do now, he would be a little itchy now and wanted to draw a picture in front of her to let her know what it means to be superb in painting.
Ruan Tang smiled and said nothing. He would be amazed by her painting.
Her painting skills are not top-notch, but they are not bad either.
Most importantly, her painting style was completely different from his.
After the topic was revealed, Chu Mu placed the box on the desk.
Only then did Ruan Tang get closer to take a look.
Ruan Tang doesn't know anything about wood, but he can tell that the material of the box is quite good.
There are exquisite patterns carved around the box. If you get closer and smell it, you can actually smell a faint fragrance.
In addition to the carved patterns, there is also a groove on the box.
Ruan Tang took a look and saw that the groove was the same as her little longevity lock.
She raised her hand and pulled the string hanging on it from her neck, and soon a small longevity lock hung on the string and she pulled it out.
Only then did Chu Mu realize that the shape of the longevity lock on her body was consistent with the groove on the box.
He had seen this thing before when the two of them were intimate. At that time, he asked her why she was wearing a child's jewelry. She said that it was left behind by her mother, so he didn't think much about it.
When he saw the box later, he never connected her longevity lock with the box.
After Ruan Tang untied the string from the longevity lock, he placed it in the groove.
But after she put it down and waited for a long time, the box showed no response.
"Those people are talking about the key to the Changshou Lock box. Why didn't they respond? Did we make a mistake?"
"It should be right." Chu Mu said quietly, and then picked up the longevity lock.
The groove on this box is the same as the shape of this longevity lock, which is definitely not a coincidence.
It's just that the method of cracking it shouldn't be that simple.
He held the longevity lock in his hand and looked at it, not missing every detail.
Until he saw a small word 'read' on it, he touched the groove with his hand again.
His eyes lit up.
Then he turned the side with the words engraved on it down and aligned it with a thin mark in the groove, then put it down and pressed hard.
With a 'click', one side of the box suddenly popped open.
"Opened? How did you do it?" Ruan Tang couldn't help but asked curiously.
Chu Mu handed her the longevity lock.
"There is a word 'read' on one side of this lock, did you know?"
Ruan Tang nodded.
"That's the word that corresponds to Groove You."
Ruan Tang touched the word 'read' with his hand and suddenly understood.
No wonder they were looking for this one of hers.
It turns out that there is a secret hidden here.
It's just that she can't understand that her longevity lock was specially made by the original owner's grandfather for the original owner's mother.
So if the lock can open the box, does that mean that the box actually belonged to the original owner's grandfather?
While Ruan Tang was thinking, Chu Mu had already taken out the contents of the box.
It's something wrapped in a piece of cloth.
Chu Mu unfolded the cloth, and inside was a worn wool roll.
Unfolding the wool roll, there is a map on it, but obviously the map is incomplete because there is still one side missing.
Chu Mu spread it out on the table and looked at it carefully.
"It should be a treasure map. No wonder they are so eager to get it."
There have been rumors that the previous emperor left a large amount of money and weapons, but where is the hiding place?
Could this picture be the treasure map rumored to contain the money and weapons of the former emperor?
"Do you think they have already obtained the missing part? Otherwise, they wouldn't be so anxious to get this part."
"It's also possible." Chu Mu responded.
Ruan Tang listened and suddenly lay down on the table, looked at Chu Mu seriously and said, "Then is there any way you can get the one in their hands?"
Chu Mu raised his eyes and looked at her doubtfully.
He thought she would ask him to protect this one from them, but he didn't expect that she would actually think of another one.
"I can't guarantee it, because I don't know if it is in their hands right now. Maybe I haven't found it yet and I don't know."
Ruan Tang tilted his head and thought for a while, "You are right. After I find Chunhan and Xia Zhu, we can also find the other half."
"Why?"
"You say it's a treasure hunt map. There must be countless treasures in it. That's why they are so flocking to it. Since there are treasures, why should we take advantage of them? It's better to fall into our pockets than to fall into their pockets."
"If we really find it, I'm not greedy. I only want 30%, and the rest is yours."
Chu Mu: "..."
